In Korça Region during the night there was rain and snow.
Ora News journalist Iris Rrezhda, suggests that at altitudes +900 there was snowfall extending to all road axes accompanied by temperatures of -3 degrees.
The thickness of the snow varies from 5 cm to 20 cm.
During the night, the Winter Maintenance Contractors worked during the night, where they cleaned and salted the roads.
Brazil: Floods and landslides kill eight, 13 missing
Two days of heavy rain trigger flash floods and landslides across Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state.
Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and landslides across Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, killing at least eight people including six children and leaving 13 missing, authorities said on Saturday.
Two days of heavy rain have battered a broad swath of the southeastern state's Atlantic coast, the latest in a series of deadly storms in Brazil that experts have said are being aggravated by climate change.
The latest floods and landslides come six weeks after flash floods and landslides killed 233 people in the scenic city of Petropolis, the Brazilian empire's 19th-century summer capital, also in Rio state.
This time, the areas hit hardest included the tourist town of Paraty, a seaside colonial city known for its picturesque cobblestone streets and colourful houses.
Officials on Saturday there said a landslide in the Ponta Negra neighbourhood had killed a mother and five of her children, ages two, five, eight, 10 and 15.
A sixth child was rescued alive and taken to the hospital, they said.
In all, seven houses were swept away in landslides in the city, and another four people injured. Seventy-one families were forced from their homes, officials said.
Two more victims were killed in the cities of Mesquita and Angra dos Reis, where another 13 people remain missing, said Congressman Marcelo Freixo, who represents the state of 17.5 million people.
In Angra, the victim was a four-year-old girl buried in a landslide, while in Mesquita, 40km (25 miles) northwest of Rio de Janeiro city, a 38-year-old man was electrocuted trying to help another person escape the flooding, media reports said.
The storms turned streets into rivers in several cities on Friday night, sweeping up cars and triggering landslides - a frequent tragedy in the rainy season, especially in poor hillside communities.
Officials in Angra said the city had received 655 millimetres (26 inches) of rain in 48 hours, "levels never before registered in the municipality".
The federal government said it had sent military aircraft to help the local rescue effort, and dispatched national disaster response secretary Alexandre Lucas to the state.
At least 16 people have lost their lives after record rainfall of over 800 mm in 48 hours triggered flash floods and landslides in Baixada Fluminense and Costa Verde regions of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
The tourist town of Paraty in the south western corner of the state was one of the worst affected areas. Local officials reported that a landslide in the Ponta Negra neighbourhood destroyed 7 houses, burying at least 8 residents from the same family. As of 02 April, 7 people had died in the incident with one person rescued alive.
Paraty's Municipal Department of Social Assistance said it had helped 219 affected families in 22 neighbourhoods. Around 71 families had been displaced and move to temporary shelters, including in municipal schools. The municipality declared a State of Public Calamity on 02 April 2022.
Parts of neighbouring municipality of municipality of Angra dos Reis saw a record 809 mm of rain in 48 hours to 02 April 2022. Floods and landslides have caused severe damage and fatalities and the municipality also declared a State of Public Calamity on 02 April 2022.
As of 03 April, Brazil's National Civil Defence reported 8 fatalities and 3 people missing in Angra dos Reis. Fire fighters have rescued 5 people. A total of 181 people have moved from their homes to temporary accommodation.
Local media also reported a weather-related fatality in Mesquita, 40km northwest of Rio de Janeiro city, where a man was electrocuted in flood waters whilst trying to help another person. Municipal authorities said the cause of death was still being investigated. Roads have been closed and homes damaged by floods landslides. Authorities have assisted dozens of affected families. Mesquita recorded 266 mm of rain in about six hours on 02 April, officials said.
Over 230 people lost their lives in two spates of floods and landslides in Petrópolis in the Fluminense Mountain Region of the state State in February and March this year.
A man has died after being struck by lightning at Sirijangha rural municipality-2, Ambegudin Lhasatole in Taplejung district.
According to District Police Office, Taplejung, Mukesh Bhattarai, 23, died after the lightning struck him around 8:30 pm yesterday. He was a municipal level volleyball player.
Bhattarai was rushed to Tellok-based Primary Health Center where he was pronounced dead by medical persons.
Spring may have been coming into bloom with temperatures hitting 20 degrees Celsius last weekend, but the Czech Republic will see a last blast of winter over the coming days.
Fifteen centimeters of snow were reported in the Jeseníky Mountains this morning. And throughout the country, cold temperatures leading to ice and snow are expected over the weekend, before temperatures rise again from the middle of next week.
The cold spell is being caused by air currents from the north and northeast.
"It will bring significantly below-average temperatures and the wind will lower the apparent temperature. Beware of icing in the morning, snowdrifts forming in the mountains, and snowfall in the lowlands," meteorologist Dagmar Honsová told Novinky.cz.
Despite the April Fool's Day jokes about it having snowed on Benidorm's beaches, some of the country did wake up to a blanket of snow this morning
On April Fool's Day it's sometimes difficult to tell what is real and what is fake, but despite numerous jokes on social media about it having snowed in Benidorm there is actually a lot of snow in northern and some parts of eastern Spain and the Balearic Islands at the moment.
The Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, La Rioja and, especially, Navarra woke up this morning under a blanket of snow and Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez had to cancel his planned visit to the National Renewable Energy Centre in Sarriguren, Navarra, today.
April Fools: Spring snow creates wintry scenes in France
The snowflakes fall on a northern part of the country this Friday, in Ile-de-France but also in Normandy, and in the Massif Central, indicates Météo-France, which has placed 22 departments on snow and ice vigilance.
A lightning strike has killed at least four young people in Ago Dada village, in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Wednesday evening during a rainfall.
The four youths who were struck by the lightning during the light rain in their homes died on the spot before any help could reach them.
The development caused tension in the agrarian community as residents of the community trooped to the scene of the incident.
A resident explained that the four young men were inside a house when the lightning suddenly enveloped the community with the accompanying thunder, killing the four of them.
Hawes, North Yorkshire, UK. Flo, the 3 week old texel pet lamb.
A blast of icy Arctic air has seen snow blanket parts of Britain, with flurries reported as far south as London, prompting warnings of travel disruption.
After overnight temperatures dropped as low as -6C in Scotland, much of the UK remained in sub-zero conditions on Thursday morning, with the mercury forecast to sit at 0C in St Alban's, -3C in Derry and and -2C in Glasgow.
According to the German Weather Serivce (DWD), both high and lower-altitude regions saw heavy snow, with parts of the motorway in North Rhine-Westphalia needing to be de-iced.
On Friday afternoon, more snowfall was expected in central and southern Germany, particularly in the regions surrounding the Alps. In the northern half of the country, temperatures in the low single-digits and windstorms were forecast.
Slippery roads are also possible again due to the snow and ice. A spokesperson for the German Weather Service told DPA that people in the coldest areas should drive with caution.
In Baden-Württemberg, fresh snow fell in the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps on Friday morning and is set to continue into the weekend.
Severe storms that included at least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people on Wednesday, damaged houses and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after they spread damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas overnight before moving to the deep south.
No deaths had been reported from the storms as of Wednesday evening, officials said. About 185,000 customers were without electricity on Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi and Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
Comment: Update 2 April
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